Når ingen andre underholder meg, så...

Det er jo ingen som blogger lengre?! I alle fall ikke på de bloggene jeg følger med på. Det ser ut til at mine venner og bekjente har fått et liv å leve.. Friskmeldinger, oppgaveskriving og hektiske eksamensdager.. Fysj! Hva med meg, da?

Så da får jeg skrive litt i stedet, tenker jeg. I dag er jeg barnevakt for Amor og Dexter. De begynner å forstå hva de skal gjøre her: Sove, sove og sove. De kan få leke og tulle mens jeg ordner meg frokost. Og så kan de få en tur litt utpå dagen. Så kan jeg selv velge om jeg vil sove eller lese mens hundene sover. Det er en veldig god arbeidsfordeling!


Ellers oppdaga jeg i dag at halsgropa mi har forsvunnet. Den lar seg lete opp om jeg dytter fingrene inn mellom kragebeinene, men den er helt borte utenom det. Jeg tror jeg skal ringe legen og opplyse om dette, for det er ikke et godt tegn når jeg samtidig sliter litt med tyroksinet mitt. Det er merkelig når man en dag våkner opp og kroppen sånn helt ut av seg selv har funnet ut at noe skal forandres. Det går jo an å si ifra før landemerker endres, flyttes eller fjernes?

Hm.. mystisk er det i alle fall.

New semester, new possibilites!

My final in microbiology is completed, and I'm waiting for my results any day now. It felt very good after this one, despite I had to leave three questions open. One of them was anyway about pharmacology, not microbes, so I'm not that sad..

Anyway, some fun facts about this spring semester: I've taken up speaking czech again. I have forgotten most of it, it seems, but I remember enough to make me self understood by one of our new international students in class; Lucie from Brno! We are also in the same casegroup, thus I'll be able to practice a little czech every now and then this coming 5 months.

Subject for this semester is by the way pathology, a step further from our basis in anatomy, histology, physiology and microbiology. We will be digging us down in diseases, patient tests, symptoms and death. I'm really looking forward to know to learn about all this!

This weekend has been quite good at the personal level. I got my laundry machine on friday, no more laundry drama in the basement for me! Due to the arrival of this gigant machine (my bathroom is only 145x155 cm, the machine 60x60) I had to do some redecoration of my bath. A new shower curtain and some new towelhooks are bought and on the way to be installed. I'm also working on my 1 year old plan of painting the bathroom door.. Hopefully it will be done.. sometime! And then, finally, I went skiing with my brand new skies today. The snow was perfekt, the temperature was perfekt.. and it felt good! 5 kilometer is not much, but it is a good start for me.

Tomorrow I'll start revicing my old ECG-labs from HK, thus on tuesday we will have an ECG-lab.. :)

Det store valget

Hei! Lenge siden sist (som vanlig). Nå har jeg hatt siste eksamen i anatomi/fysiologi/histo-faget vårt, og det gikk sånn omtrent dårlig. Resultatet kommer kanskje til uka, men uansett hva det blir, skal jeg bare se framover. En eventuell konteeksamen får vente til jeg har tid og lyst, mer eller mindre.

Nytt kurs har dermed også starta, Attack och försvar. Svenske politistudenter har et kurs med akkurat samme tittel, men innholdet er ganske forskjellig. Vårt handler om immunforsvaret, bakterier, sopp og virus. Det er mange labber (hurra!) som handler om bakterievekst, bakterietyper, antibiotika og eksponensielle kurver, samt mange gode forelesninger og heller lite dødtid.

Med andre ord, jeg har dagene fyllt til randen. Fysioterapi, legeundersøkelser og tannlegebesøk hadde jeg all verdens tid til før siste eksamen, nå har jeg store vanskeligheter med å finne smutthull i timeplanen.

Og midt oppi alt dette må jeg gjøre et ganske stort valg. Skal jeg fortsette studiene mine her i Umeå om et år, eller skal jeg bytte studieby? Jeg må velge og jeg må sende inn mitt svar på valget innen 5. desember. Her er valgene, samt fordeler og ulemper:

Bli værende i Umeå:
-Jeg slipper å flytte, og slipper dermed å selge leiligheten med det første
-De fleste i klassen min blir også her
-Jeg kjenner byen
-Jeg får mye og bra helsehjelp her
vs
-70 studenter skal sloss om egentlig for få pasienter og veiledere
-Jeg blir boende langt fra Norge ut studietiden
-Jeg må reise ut og ta 2-4 ukers praksiser rundt om i Nord-Sverige resten av studietiden.

Dra til Sundsvall
-Få som konkurrerer om pasienter/veiledere (10 studenter pr klasse)
-Slipper å reise Norrland rundt på forskjellige praksiser, men må dra til Umeå for enkelte moment på timeplanen
-IKEA som nabo...

Dra til Luleå
-Få som konkurrerer om pasienter/veiledere (10 studenter pr klasse)
-Slipper å reise Norrland rundt på forskjellige praksiser, men må dra til Umeå for enkelte moment på timeplanen
-Jeg kommer meg nord for polarsirkelen...

Dra til Östersund
-Få som konkurrerer om pasienter/veiledere (10 studenter pr klasse)
-Slipper å reise Norrland rundt på forskjellige praksiser, men må dra til Umeå for enkelte moment på timeplanen
-Kjempenært Trondheim, lillesøster og Norge generellt sett (175 kr for togbillett til Trheim)
-Billige leiligheter (helt akseptabel pris på 2-romsleiligheter, især kjekt om jeg får hund til sommeren)

Oh.. ja.. det blir vanskelig det her. Jeg elsker å flytte på meg, utforske nye steder og har mange lopper i blodet. Men det er jo fint her i Umeå også... Noen synspunkter på hva jeg burde velge??

Last final this semester

Is now over. I believe I passed, so I won't bring any books home over the summer. Only two weeks until I know the results, though.

I'm gonna work a lot this summer, I need spear money for my last academic year. Have to start saving now!

Why I bought my own apartement

There is a lot of students in Umeå. About 30 000 to be quite exact. Most students lives in student homes and corridors the first period of the studies, maybe during the whole education. It is, of course a quite cheap, convenient and easy way to live, if the corridor mates are okay.

But there may be some things a student have to considerate before leaving his or her home for becoming a student. One of them is the ratio between corridor parties and reading required for the finals (or worse, you trying to read when your neighboroughs are partying). One other is the possibillity of corridor mates stealing food and soap from your cupboard. But of course, you might end in the friendly hippie corridor where my stuff is your stuff, with common dinners every weekend and movies every once in a while.

I didn't take any chance, I need to have a place for myself when I read. And I have to read a lot, beeing a medical student, of course. I could have applied for an another corridor until i found the happy hippie corridor, of course, but I like having a place I may redecorate as I like myself. But this blog post is actually not about me, but a way to make some simple corridor solutions.

A classmate of me had to move out of her first corridor after a big fight, her neighboroughs wasn't that.. eh.. safe. The next corridor seemed better, but after a while and quite a lot of angry notes, she realized that her corridor mates was thiefly and unhonest. So how to make them stay away from her food in the refrigator? Well, she gave it a thought, then she baked a full bodied creamy chocolate cake with a lot of frosting.. Heavy chocolate bar frosting. Then she cut the cake in two halves, and put one of them in her spot in the refrigator. This she actually did last night. Today she checked her refrigator, the cake was absolutely absent. After making herself breakfast and lunsh, she went to the exam hall (we had our finals today, yay!) laughing. She is very curious about the state of her corridor mates today. Why? Well.. This very smart and clever medical student added an extra ingredient to the heavy frosting: a bottle of laxatives.

Have a nice summer, and stay away from the food of your medical student friends, unless you're allowed to take..

Loosing my language

I have a hard time trying to make interresting post on my blog. I love to write, but I have a problem. I feel like I'm loosing the english language. It is because I dont speak english at a everyday basis. That means I can't really My language is now a strange mix of norwegian, swedish, english, latin with some czech words from now and then.

My class sometimes laugh a bit when I answer the questions asked in lectures. Last week my lecturer thought I said "jam" when the answer was "hunger". For the record; the norwegian word for hunger is "sult", whereas the swedish word for jam is "sylt".

Anyway, I'm considering to change language in my blog back to norwegian again. I don't know how many foreign/non-nordic readers I have. I have no idea..!

One week from now I have this term's last final. The subject is "Structure and function of the organs part II". Then I'll travel home and work at the local hospital and the elderly home for the whole summer. Hopefully, I'll go to my mother's birthplace for one week vacation in august and the last week in august will probably be used for some epilepcy tests at Umeå University Hospital.

Lightning and thunder

Isn't it strange? Today the sun rised at 03.32 am. It set at 21.41 and it is still dusk. In about a month (when i got my last final this semester), the night wil only last about 3 hours and 15 minutes, and it will be dusk the intire time.

The summer arrived yesterday, with lightning and thunder. My head gets quite heavy and sore before a thunder, so I knew it for quite some hours before the clouds gathered. Since my head doesn't work very well with thunder, my reading had to end quite early. And the telly and computer had to be off.. So what to do when the rain sweeps over my brand new windows? Well.. I found me myself some ice cream and sat in the sofa and watched the nature.

The rain washed away the very last patch of snow in our garden, and I woke up to the very first day of summer today. 22 degrees celsius, blue sky and a mild breeze. Of course had I to take my beloved Guyton & Hall outside and read in the garden.. The reading it self lasted for maybe 15 minutes, but ah. sunshine!

Anyway, I realized that my reading ability is not very great in the first summer day, so I went back inside. After a bit reading (about human growth hormone), some dinner and more reading, I got that "thundering" feeling again.. So I took a peek out the windows, the clouds seemed to have gathered again. But I also noticed a young man in the back yard, at the grill.. He had a plate of meet, a nice fire on the grill and probably a beer in his hand. Not so good timing, within 5 minutes the first raindrops landed, the guy looked a bit confused before he collected his stuff and leaved the back yard. I felt a bit sorry for him.

Hm.. I think I have to gather some classmates for a grill party before the semester ends.. And by the way, I got myself a summer job.. or actuall two! One on the local eldery home, and one at the regional hospital. :)

Why didn't I fail?

My professor passed me in latin today, so I have one more final done. But I'm a bit confused. I had really many errors on my final paper. It was confused and not correct at all. Strange that the professor passed me. I wouldn't argumented if she failed me, the paper was bad.

I probably won't ever harm any of my patients due to bad latin, actually; most medical faculties doesn't require latin as a subject for up and coming doctors. But still?

I hope I do better on my histology final in two weeks. I'll at least try.